Telephone-wire hanger.



No. 728,278. I

UNITED STATES HERMAN, F. NESLAGE AND HARRY H. WATSON, on ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Patented May 19, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

TELEPHONE-WIRE HANG ER.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 728,278, dated May 19, 1903. Application filed July 14,1902. Serial No. 115,529. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that we, HERMAN F. NESLAGE and HARRY H. WATSON, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Inn-i ing overhead telephone-wires the messenger wire, with the telephone-wire cable suspended therefrom by hooks, is supported on hangers or brackets fixed to the poles and thetele phone-wire cable then pulled taut, the hooks in so doing sliding along the messenger-wire,

which with the ordinarily-constructed hang-1 ers necessitates the displacement and readjustment by hand of the hooks that would otherwise be intercepted and stopped by the hangers, and so prevent the free hauling of the cable.

Our invention has forits object'to provide a hanger or bracket by means of which the hooks adjacent thereto while hauling and tightening the telephone-wire cable are enabled to freely pass the hangers without the need of sending a man aloft to shift the hooks.

The invention consists in features of novelty, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, whereon v Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved telephone-"wire hanger fixed to a pole, broken away, with the messenger-wire and telephone-wire cable suspended therefrom;

Fig. 2, a cross-section through the wireson line 2 2 in Fig. 1, showing the hanger in side note like parts in all the figures.

(.1 represents our improvedtelephone-wire hanger or bracket, which in this case is preferably L-shaped, but may be of any other suitable form, and fixed to the pole b by bolts or screws in the usual manner. In the lower projecting part 1 of the hanger a is formed a bearing 2, which is preferably semicircular in cross-section and adapted to receive and support the messenger-wire c. The bearing 2 is provided with a correspondingly-shaped cap d, which is adapted to close over the messenger-wire c and is preferably formed with aninclined shank 3, having the base 4, which bears upon andis secured to the" lower part 1 of the hanger a by a bolt 5, having the nut '5, which when screwed home against the under side of the hanger a. closes the cap (1 upon the messenger-wire c and firmlyholds it in its bearing 2. The cap 01 is formed fora suitable distance longitudinally from each end of the'bearing 2 with an extended portion 6, having the same shape on its under side as the middle portion of'the cap d'and bearing therewith for theentire length of the cap '01 upon the messenger-wire c, or, if desired, the under side of the cap d may be longitudinally concave, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1, so as to hear at each end only upon the messenger-wire 0. "Each end of the cap dis formed, preferably, with two opposite lateral dependent ears or tags 7, which are made of thinner metal than the body of the cap d, whereby they are bent inward toward each other against the under part of the messenger wire a and the latter thereby firmly gripped by the cap 01, as seen :particularly'in Fig. 5.

From the cap d on its front side or edge preferably depends aglug 8,'which when'the cap is placed in position over the bearing 2 engages in a notch 9, formed vertically in the corresponding side of the bearing 2, and thereby locks and preventsany end movement or displacement of the cap d when the telephone-wirecable is hauledalongthe messenger-wire c,-as hereinafter more particu-' larly referred to.

The cap 61 is curved or tapered externally from its maximum thickness in the middle to its minimum thickness at each end, which is adapted to closely hug the messengerwire 0. Furthermore, the oapd is for-med externally and longitudinally at the top with a convex or tapered rib or enlargement 10,

which extendsfrom nothing at each end of" the cap (1 to its maximum height at the middle of the latter, each end of the cap d and rib 1O presenting practically a continuous surface with the upper surface of the inessen ger-wire 'c.

6 represents the lead tube containing the telephone-wires 11, which, with the tube 6, are herein termed the telephone-wire cable, and to the tube a are clamped the hooks f, which are hooked onto the messenger-wire c in the usual well-known manner, and it is here noted that the lower part 1 of the hanger a, at and adjacent to the bearing 2, combined with the cap d, is so shaped as to offer no obstruction to the hooksf when passing the hanger a, as hereinafter more particularly referred to.

In operation the messenger-wire 0 being first strung along the entire route and held taut in the bearings 2 of the hangers a by the caps d, the hooks f, carrying the telephonewire cable, are then hooked onto the messenger-Wire c, the cable at this stage having more or less sag between the successive poles b. The telephone-wire cable is then hauled tight in the usual manner, and in so doing the hooks f slide along the messenger- Wire 0, those hooks f which would otherwise be mast/s stopped by the ordinary hangers riding over the convex caps cl of the hangers a, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1, and clearing themselves therefrom as the hauling of the telephone-wire cable proceeds, thereby obviating the necessity of a man climbing each pole b to remove and replace the hooks f.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a telephone-Wire hanger having a hearing for the messenger-wire, a cap to the said bearing and wire, the said cap extending beyond each endof the bearing and having its top longitudinally convex, ears depending, from each end of the cap, a lug dependent from the cap and entering a slot in the hanger, and additional means for fixing the cap to the hanger, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMAN F. NESLAGE. HARRY H. WATSON.

Witnesses:

G. L. BELFRY, EDWARD W. FARRELL. 

